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• ‘THIS IS A BOOKSHOP’ Sign Goes Viral

  
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  A reader snapped a photograph of that sign at the The Albion Beatnik bookstore in Oxford. After ten hours, the sign has been viewed nearly 9,000 times online as digital readers share their love of bookstores. Here’s more about the Albion Beatnik at For Book’s Sake (be sure to read the entire review): ...
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• Man picks up a copy of Sweet Tooth.

  
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  Did you hear about Ian McEwan, hes terminally ill, he says. I think you mean Iain Banks, I say. Yeah, thats right, he says. I knew it was one of them. Its a shame, he adds, he was a really good writer.
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• Sales Tax Bill Passes U.S. Senate

  
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  The U.S. Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 (S.743), approving a bill that would make online sellers with $1 million or more in yearly sales (including booksellers like Amazon) to collect state sales tax. The U.S. House of Representatives must now consider the bill. The bill was introduced by ...
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• Book Report: Guantanamo Library, Self Publishers Take Over, Boston Love & More!

  
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  Authors Draw Up "Manifesto" to Save Bookshops   Some local Venice authors have drawn up a "manifesto" to save their book stores. Guantanamo Library Tumblr   A Tumblr of the library books at Guantanamo prison. F. Scott Fizgeralds Accounts   BBC reports that Great Gatsby author, F. Scott Fitzgeralds ...
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• BookCourt Raising Funds to Buy Bibliobarn

  
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  The team behind Brooklyn’s Bookcourt bookstore has launched an Indiegogo campaign to buy the Bibliobarn property in New York’s Catskill Mountains and reopen as BookCourt North. They have created a number of interesting perks for contributors. For $1,255 contribution, you can host an event at the future ...
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• Art Deco Dust Jackets

  
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  While perusing the New York Antiquarian Book Show, I came across a seller, Yesterday’s Gallery & Babylon Revisited, whose inventory almost exclusively deals in the period between the wars. The dust jackets of that span reflected the artistic craze now known as Art Deco. I’ve collected many books with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stan the window cleaner reviews a book.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 119
  Morning Stan, I say. Morning Matthew, Stan says. That was a proper three-card trick with that thirteen pound book you sold me, he says. I laugh. Wasnt no twenty pound notes in nineteen-sixty-eight, he says. Ten bob, possibly a fiver but I never saw one, but no twenty pound notes. Thing is, Jonathan, he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Auto machina

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 119
  Auto machina. An Italian couple stand at the counter speaking Italian. Auto machina, the man says again. All around there is a party going on. A party that will be written up in the history of the shop as the night of a hundred bottles. One more person through the door and the room will go pop. Auto machina, he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Uh oh. New iNDIE eBOOK SHOP badge.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 119
  Just over there. On the left. You can now buy ebooks with book tokens. Groovy. Or something.
  3 weeks ago

• Alexandria, Virginia Is Amazon’s Most Well-Read City in America

  
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  Alexandria, Virginia is the most well-read city in America once again , according to Amazon’s annual ranking that measures ”all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format” in cities around the country. Gone Girl by  Gillian Flynn  was the most popular novel purchased in that city, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Card Readers, Amazon and Library Sales

  
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  I’m still catching up with my contacts made from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. I had to manually make a few credit card charges. My new Intuit card reader quit working and the backup I brought with me would not work, either. Bummer. I have had a merchant account system connected to my website for years ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Grim review

  
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  Its snowing again . Coming down pretty heavy. The weather man says five to eight inches this time. I was going to call it an insult, but no. The last one was an insult. This is the one theres no alternative to laughing over. Even if it puts down a foot, I declare here and now I wont shovel it. Itll be gone in a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Together, We Can Save the Independent Bookstores

  
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  The following is a post by William Kent Krueger which he posted on his own blog today, April 22nd. He kindly gave us permission to repost it. When I was a kid, every town had a bookstore. An independent bookstore. Some towns had several. They were as ubiquitous as local drugstores with soda fountains and as ...
  3 weeks ago

• What’s the Value of a Book Festival for Authors?

  
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  I’m back from the Los Angeles Festival of Books (LATFB). And I have stories to tell. If you’ve never sat in a booth at a major book festival with your book, I recommend it. But I have to tell you that it will not be a relaxing way to spend an afternoon or an entire weekend. First, you have to decide how many ...
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• Last night I met a man

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 119
  who said, Independent bookseller. Yes, I said. You own an independent bookshop? Yes, I said. Isnt that, he said, like being tied to the mast at sea during a very heavy storm?
  4 weeks ago

• Carl Hiaasen is Coming!

  
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  Tues, June 25, 1-2pm , Carl Hiaasen signs Bad Monkey ( June , Knopf hc, $26.95). Well, as usual, there really is no way to succinctly note a Hiaasen plot and this one is no different: a cop on Health Inspector duties who is hoping to get hired by the Key West department, a kinky medical examiner, a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rest Within His Sanctuary

  
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  The final figures on our free offer of Hailstone Mountain yesterday show upwards of 1,000 downloads, which strikes me as pretty good. Weve gotten a fair number of sales in the backwash today as well. So in a mood of thanksgiving, I offer the video below, the best version I could find of a Christian song that (in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Walker declares success

  
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  Im happy to report that our free book day (not over yet, you can still get it here until midnight, I think) seems to have been a success. Weve given away more than 750 downloads, last time I checked, and one may hope that this might attract a few readers and referrals. Hailstone Mountain reached #2 on a couple of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Free book! One day only

  
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  In our infinite benevolence and generosity, Ori and I are making my new e-book, Hailstone Mountain , available for free download on Tuesday, April 16. One day only! Act now! Unless its not Tuesday yet. Or its Wednesday. Free on Tuesday. Thats the deal. Tell your friends.
  4 weeks ago

• Useful Phases for Insulting Bookbinders in French from 1729. Cette relieure n’est pas bonne!

  
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  Abel Boyer, The Compleat French-master, For Ladies and Gentlemen, Tenth edition, London: Printed for Samual Ballard, 1729 There are two particularly interesting phrases in this text.  ”Will you have them bound in sheeps, calves or Turkey leather” indicates that the bookseller was selling unbound sheets or books ...
  4 weeks ago

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